Go to the Content Thursday, 21 August 2008
European Parliament committee presses for the deployment of peacekeepers, as Georgia presses EU to take punitive steps against Russia.
Hints of thaw with the West countervailed by the Belarusian president's praise for Russia's actions in South Ossetia and a pending defence deal with Moscow.
Despite Russian opposition in the UN Security Council, the UN presses ahead with the transfer of assets and responsibility in Kosovo to the EU.
The first-ever contraction of the eurozone compounds fears that recession is looming.
Access to Schengen Information System marks step towards Switzerland's membership of Europe's border-free zone.
Law student argues that new law discriminates against Swedish lawyers and against their international clients.
Mauritania coup leaders come under increased pressure as France suspends aid and Commission moves to launch formal talks.
Prime Minister Fogh Rasmussen delays vote on Danish opt-out clauses after Lisbon Treaty uncertainty.
Bulgaria plans to continue mothballed EU programme for farmers even though the EU is offering no guarantee of reimbursement.
Much of the increase is generated by companies from two states involved in talks on Iran's nuclear programme: Germany and France.
Pressure mounts on Bulgaria and Romania
EU 'compounding' dangers of divided Bosnia
EU-wide rules on immigrant employment resisted
EU executive releases €3 million to one of the countries most affected by high food prices.
EU is capable of supplying all the troop-carrying helicopters needed by UN peacekeepers, report says.
EU-Israel agree to liberalise trade
Amnesty says situation in China is declining EU backs South African role in Zimbabwe EU to offer Ukraine “association” agreementEU executive says the two Japanese producers occupy largely distinct parts of the European consumer-electronics market.
European Commission warns of consequences of new policy.
Air travellers in the EU may finally be able to know in advance what they can and cannot take on board.
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Without concerted political will to act strategically and decisively, even the Lisbon treaty's institutional reforms will not give the EU the coherence to contain, let alone confront, a resurgent Russia.
The Cold War provides an example of how we can address the deep insecurity highlighted by the conflict in Georgia.
Stuck for reading matter? There's still a chance to grab some new and old central and eastern European classics.
Is corruption bad in Romania? Yes, but the Romania of 2008 is not the Romania of 1990s. And, for that, some thanks are owed to the EU.
EP President Pöttering returns from a changing Middle East, but will the changes stick?
As Russia pounds Georgia, the EU is scrambling to come up with a unified response.
The Scandinavian Kingdom might prove to be the perfect case study for things to come in the EU.
A wine's quality has little to do with terroir.
Seven years of talks have helped the EU; it needs to lock in those gains.
The European Union loses credibility as it flounders with states that flout its rules.
Post-Soviet Russia is unlikely to fall apart, provided ethnic Russians can curb their chauvinism and heavy-handedness.
A ‘faux-Finn' finds Finns are changing – but, thankfully, not their summer habits.
Karadžic's trial will be a milestone for justice, but he has left a legacy of human-rights issues that remain to be resolved.
If the French can turn their attention from what Britain can bring to the party, they may yet be able to lay claim to re-launching Europe's defence policy.
by Chris Patten
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Analysis
How Europe tries to police Spanish fisheries.
The European Central Bank is our best hope in troubled times, even if EU leaders try to use it as a scapegoat for economic ills.
People
Is Dimitris Dimitiadis, president of the European Economic and Social Committee, bound for greater things?
What Caroline Lucas might soon have in common with the far-right.
The life of a European Parliament president is never quiet, even in August.
Travelling in style, recession style.
Just the food for marathon trade talks.
A colour-blind regulator meets a red line?
Seven directors-general wait for the music to start.
It will take more than one presidency to reverse the hostility the French now feel towards the EU.
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